"They're offering us nothing but slavery," said Maud Pottier, 17,That's fine, Maud, now go get your shine box.
a student at Jules Verne High School in Sartrouville, north of
Paris, who was wrapped in layers of scarves as protection
against the chilly, gray day. "You'll get a job knowing that
you've got to do every single thing they ask you to do because
otherwise you may get sacked. I'd rather spend more time
looking for a job and get a real one."
Thursday, March 16, 2006
French students protest new labor law
The law would make it easier for employers to hire and fire workers.
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This story brings me a certain amount of entertainment. If anyone asks me why I don't hold Europe as the ideal, I can simply point to these protests as one of the main reasons.
What a bunch of screwballs taking to the streets in an effort to block a law that would have a worker be responsible for being worth paying.
Can you imagine wanting to start a small business and knowing if you hired some young person who turned out to be an idiot, you had to keep him around for TWO YEARS?!!??
Gosh I wonder why the French economy isn't everything it could be.
And what's up with comparing this law to slavery?
Can this retard be serious? Possibly being fired from a job because you're incompitant just isn't quite the same as being sold into unpaid servitude and worked to death.
Why are students sometimes the best hope for a better future and other times a bunch of whining spoiled slack-jawed knuckle draggers who think they know everything and seldom possess any wisdom?
You hit the nail on the head - eloquently, 8th man.
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